Install StatsD on an Ubuntu box, including creating an upstart service and the option to build a graphite box or configure Librato as a backend.

graphite_install.sh

#
# Assumes an independent box (we'll call this one "graphite")
#

# Stay up to date
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# Install git
sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev -y

# Install python stuff
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential python-django-tagging python-django -Y
sudo pip install --upgrade pip 
sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv 

# Graphite is comprised of Whisper, Carbon, and the Webapp
mkdir graphite && cd graphite
pip install whisper
pip install carbon
pip install graphite-web

# TO BE COMPLETED...
# https://gist.github.com/jgeurts/3112065
# https://gist.github.com/jasonroelofs/944849
# http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.10/install.html
# http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2012/08/27/graphite-beyond-the-basics/

librato.sh

# Install the librato backend plugin
cd ~/statsd
npm install statsd-librato-backend

# Edit the config file
vim config.js

# Set up Librato as a backend to the config object:
# {
#   backends: ["statsd-librato-backend"]
# }

# Add Librato config to the config object:
# librato: {
#   email:  "you@example.com",
#   token:  "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
#   source: "unique name for this node"
# }

# The config values could be substituded for environment variables, such as 
# - process.env.LIBRATO_EMAIL,
# - process.env.LIBRATO_TOKEN,
# - process.env.LIBRATO_SOURCE
# And the corresponding environment variables could be added to the ~/.env file

statsd_install.sh

#
# Assumes an independent box (we'll call this one "statsd")
#

# Stay up to date
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# Install git
sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev -y
sudo apt-get install git-core -y

# Install Nodejs
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python make -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y

# Clone the statsd project 
git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git
cd ./statsd

# Create a config file for statsd
cp ./statsd/exampleConfig.js ./statsd/config.js
$EDITOR ./statsd/config.js

# Install foreman so we can run our process though and Procfile and easily export to Upstart
sudo gem install foreman
# echo -e "\nexport PATH=/usr/local/bin:~/bin:$PATH\n" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
# Shoreman would be another option, but doesn't have an export command
# mkdir ~/bin && curl https://github.com/hecticjeff/shoreman/raw/master/shoreman.sh -sLo ~/bin/shoreman && chmod 755 ~/bin/shoreman

# Create .env and Procfile
echo "statsd: node ./statsd/stats.js ./statsd/config.js" >> Procfile
touch .env

statsd_run.sh

# Export to upstart
sudo foreman export upstart /etc/init -a statsd -u $USER

# Start the process 
sudo start statsd

# Stop the process when necessary
sudo stop statsd